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Cargando... Making Grizzle Growpor Rachna Gilmore
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Reviewed by Janice Del Negro (Booklist, Jan. 1, 2008, Vol. 104, No. 9) Reviewed by Helen Norrie (CM Magazine, November 9, 2007, Vol. 14, No. 6) 'Readers can immediately see when Emily is angry, impatient, scared and contented.' http://www.umanitoba.ca/outreach/cm/vol14/no6/makinggrizzlegrow.html sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Emily's father sends her outside to play in the snow, but she's upset because he won't join her. She decides to make a dinosaur that will impress her father, but the dinosaur has a voracious appetite. In a fantasy sequence, Emily feeds Grizzle pizzas, cheeseburgers, spaghetti and meatballs, roast turkey and many more specialties. Grizzle keeps growing and finally becomes a Tyrannosaurus rex that frightens Emily. But when Emily's dad finally comes outside to admire her work, Emily saves him from her monster creation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Making Grizzle Grow is another creative picture-book examination of the child-parent bond from Canadian children's author Rachna Gilmore, whose When-I-Was-A-Little-Girl dealt with a young girl and her mother, and the problematic nature of comparisons. Here we have a young girl and her father, and the resolution of some feelings of disappointment and resentment, when the father cannot immediately join Emily in her outdoor play. I liked the way in which Grizzle represents Emily anger - continually growing as Emily feeds it - and the ambiguous way in which the imaginary (is Emily feeding Grizzle actual food?) and the real (or is Emily building her snow dinosaur bigger and bigger with actual snow?) meet up in this story. The resolution, in which Emily 'saves' her father from Grizzle, felt a little contrived to me, but was satisfyingly happy, for all that, and the illustrations by Leslie Elizabeth Watts were colorful and appealing. All in all, a fun 'family story' for young readers, one I would recommend to children who have felt irritated with their parents, from time to time. Which is most children, I imagine... ( )